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In The People of the Ruins (originally published in 1920), Edward Shanks imagines England in the not
With My Gothic Dissertation, University of Iowa PhD Anna M. Williams has transformed the dreary diss
In his compelling evaluation of Cold War popular culture, Pulp Vietnam: War and Gender in Cold War M
Is Orwell still relevant today? In Orwell’s Ghosts Wisdom and Warnings for the 21st Century (Norton,
Hollywood is haunted by the ghost of playwright and novelist Oscar Wilde. Wilde in the Dream Factory
Traces of Enayat (Transit Books, 2023) is a work of creative nonfiction tracing the mysterious life
It's another summer in a small Florida town. After an illness that vanishes as mysteriously as it ar
What would it mean for American and African American literary studies if readers took the spirituali
Asya and Manu are looking at apartments, envisioning their future in a foreign city. What should the
In The Literary Life of Yājñavalkya (SUNY Press, 2024), Steven E. Lindquist investigates the interse
After the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act loosened discriminatory restrictions, people from Nor
Fella Benabed's book Applied Global Health Humanities: Readings in the Global Anglophone Novel (de G
For twentieth-century Jewish immigrants and their children attempting to gain full access to America
Passing, Posing, Persuasion: Cultural Production and Coloniality in Japan's East Asian Empire (U Haw
Love Me Fierce In Danger: The Life of James Ellroy (Bloomsbury, 2023) is the story of James Ellroy,
Persevering with our literary theme this season, in this episode Claudia Radiven and Chella Ward cha
Departing from the conventional association of modernism with the city, Hannah Freed-Thall's Moderni
In Theater As Data: Computational Journeys Into Theater Research (U Michigan Press, 2021), Miguel Es
In this elegantly written study Rival Wisdoms: Reading Proverbs in the Canterbury Tales (Penn State
Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen (Vintage, 2024) is a critical memoir about women, reading, and me
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